Brazilian motel is for puppy lovers only

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Get a room Yorkshire terriers Billy and Jully in the Pet
Love Motel.Photo: Reuters

São Paulo, Brazil: A love motel, complete with a
heart-shaped mirror on the ceiling and a headboard resembling a
doggy bone, has opened for amorous pooches in Brazil.

The Pet Love Motel, in São Paulo, South America's largest
city, was inspired by the thousands of such establishments that
rent rooms to trysting couples for four-hour periods.

"I am absolutely certain this is the first one [for dogs] in the
world," said Robson Marinho, a director at the Gang dos Bichos, or
Gang of Animals, a pet shop.

Mr Marinho said he had received reservations for the room, which
he built on the second floor of the store and hung a sign that
reads Pet Love Motel. The window has thick curtains for timid dogs
that want discretion.

Mr Marinho's business partners own seven love motels for humans
in São Paulo, including the island-themed Caribe and another
called Opium.

The air-conditioned Pet Love Motel room, with a paw-print
decorative motif, has a special control panel to dim the lights,
turn on romantic music or play films.

The room, which opened this month, costs 100 real ($55) for two
hours, making it more expensive than the least luxurious rooms at
the Opium, which cost 107 real for four hours.